UK investigators have found that Children Obesity increase the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes four times
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Children who are obese have a fourfold increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared with their normal-weight counterparts, UK investigators have found in an electronic health record study.
The research was published online on April 25 in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. Examining data on more than 350,000 children,2-15 years old the researchers determined that although the number of type 2 diabetes cases remains relatively low in comparison with type 1 diabetes in children, the incidence of the former has risen markedly in recent years, to a rate of more than 33 per 100,000 children in 2013, and is a strongly associated with obesity.
Lead author Ali Abbasi, MD, PhD, from the department of primary care and public-health sciences, King's College London, United Kingdom, said This represents "an important public-health message, that it is important that general practitioners, family doctors, and society at large are aware of these trends"., adding: " this help us prioritize prevention and interventions in the future."
Although recent studies have suggested that approximately one-third of children in the United Kingdom are overweight or obese, there has been little study of the association between obesity and temporal trends in the incidence of diabetes in this age group.
In the United States, a recent analysis of private healthcare insurance claims data showed that the number of children and adolescents diagnosed with type 2 diabetes has more than doubled in recent years, and the increase appears to be coincident with a rise in obesity rates.
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